July 6, 2011

I had a strange dream last night:Late afternoon had set in and my family and I were on the way to dinner. My brother was bringing a guest: Mariah Carey. My two sisters became excited and my brother appeared with her almost instantly. I sat next to her in the backseat, wondering how he even knew her but not caring for too long because she was wearing a very short skirt.

We arrived at the restaurant and I took my seat at the head of the table, my pop at the other end and everyone else between us. I had wanted to sit close to Mariah so hat I could make her laugh but I quickly forgot that she was even there due to her boring dinner conversation. An Indian couple that I knew from my dreams was present as well and I gave up my seat for the male so he could sit next to his wife. Within the blink of an eye, my surroundings changed and I found myself sitting with my brother and friends Dids, Tonya, B, Justine, and James on a couch outside in an industrial park by an elongated pool similar to the one that sits before the Taj Mahal. We were watching the movie “The Other Guys” and I was high so naturally laughing harder than everyone else at it.

In the distance a man approached, walking unevenly. The closer he came the more I noticed how grotesque and disturbing his face was along with a creepy kind of giggle he kept trying to hold back. Piece by piece, kevlar plate armor appeared on my body accompanied by the sound of metal clashing. Within seconds, I was fully donned and charged the creepy man who turned out to be the Joker as played by Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight”. For hours he and I fought; my strength grew the more angry I became with him to the point where I was able to pick him up and throw him through the air. That wasn’t enough, I threw him into the elongated pool, which turned into a pier right before he hit the water. A random man approached, watching the fight intently and decided to intervene. I hit him in the face once and broke….everything. Blood trickled out from a few different points of his face and he fell into the water and drowned. The Joker laughed. In fact, the more I beat on him, the less he cared–the more he laughed and the less it hurt him. I pulled him out of the water and threw him headfirst into the wall and he collapsed into a heap, watching me the entire time. He rapidly opened and closed his jaw, the sound of him straining to breathe could be heard over everything else. He wasn’t trying to breathe, he was still laughing. His bloodshot eyes turned jet black and he emanated such intense and reckless evil that it almost seemed like a physical substance. This was not the Joker, at least not anymore; this was the devil. I could recognize him from his appearance in my other dreams. I grew a little anxious and angrier, lifted him up with one arm, repeatedly throwing his head into the concrete wall causing chunks of it to fall to the ground and crumble to dust. He laughed repeatedly as I did this and his laughs turned into barks that you would hear from a Rottweiler.

The ground rumbled slightly. I needed to kill this creature for good. I grabbed him by his jacket collar, dragging him along the pier much to the horror of the people present (but had not been present before). Shouts filled the air of how to deal with the devil but I walked intently toward a raised platform upon which stood an elevated metallic casket of sorts. It was filled with boiling acid and without hesitation I threw the side of his face right up against the grate. A raspy scream mixed with more barking cut through the air but I would not release him. I wanted to kill him and to make him suffer on his way to death. I grit my teeth in anger and threw the rest of his body in and slammed it shut.

To the east a pale light filled the green swirling clouds. The casket disappeared and it started to snow. I was in the company of some soldiers like myself and we were quietly talking amongst ourselves as to where we should go. Through the thick of clouds swirling above us, a bright circular light on the underside of a disc emanated fog and illuminated our position. We grabbed our rifles and aimed but the disc would not stop moving around. It seemed to roll as it moved back and forth. I pulled my phone out and recorded this phenomena as a smaller light was dispatched from the disc and sped toward us. It turned into a more cylindrical shaped object and latched onto the face of one of my comrades. We quickly ran over to him to pry it from him but it zipped away before we could do anything. His face was bruised and coated in some kind of fluid. A loud, almost robotic exhaust noise filled the air and more slick and metallic objects in the shape of four legged animals with slightly elongated necks but no faces descended from the hovering craft and assaulted us. They pinned down a few of my friends, “licking” them all over & covering them in that strange liquid as if they were marking them. I tackled one and reached for my gun but it headbutted me, sending me flying a few feet through the air. I was not sure how to harm these things as they had no face and no detail to them whatsoever. They were smooth and metallic all over with no obvious weaknesses. Simultaneously, they turned into globes of light and flew up into the craft, which quickly ascended and descended altitude over us. I continued recording with my phone. Within the blink of an eye, it was gone.

We gathered ourselves and checked each other over for injuries. Everything seemed ok but we were slightly shaken up. We were all wondering the same thing: what the FUCK just happened and what was that? It wasn’t snowing anymore. The clouds above us seemed impenetrable now but continued to slowly billow up and swirl around. We moved out toward the cell towers on the other side of the bridge by us. As we arrived, I noticed someone descending the tower the way a spider would. I got the chills but also rolled my eyes at the ridiculousness of what was happening–so absurdly unbelievable it all was. This “person” approached us, stern and cold. It snatched one of my comrades, the leader, and he disappeared. When the creature reappeared it asked us for our second in command. I became nervous, thinking he might take me away, but everyone pointed to the soldier in our group that nobody was too fond of. He was the unofficial second in command and gave a look of resignation to this creature and begrudgingly volunteered himself. I slowly reached for my knife, intent on stabbing this creature to kill him and save my comrade but another friend of mind quickly grabbed my hand and shook his head no. Another friend disappeared with the creature, leaving a bolt of horizontal lightning behind that lit up the clouds. The night grew even darker. We stared at one another with no idea what to do next, as this…..thing could seemingly be anywhere at any time. I woke up.